Just to add to that; if you are using Java on your server side you may be planning to use Servlets. If that's the case you can have a look at the following tutorial.
http://lkamal.blogspot.com/2008/09/java-gwt-servlets-web-app-tutorial.html Cheers. On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Jim<[email protected]> wrote: > > If you plan to use Java for your server side, you don't have to use > XML http requests. You can use the built-in RPC to retrieve Java > objects from server and send to GWT clients or vice versa. That is a > big advantage to stick to Java in server side. You can find an example > in http://www.gwtorm.com/gwtMail.jsp. > > Jim > http://www.gwtorm.com > http://code.google.com/p/dreamsource-orm/ > > On Jul 10, 10:54 am, Neha Chachra <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I started using GWT only about a week ago and I have rather little >> experience with client-server interactions so I wish to make sure that I am >> headed in the right direction. Though, I am guessing that the question is >> not directly related to GWT and I apologize for that. >> >> Basically, I am making a webpage. Depending on the data in SQL server, I >> need to render widgets on the page. As a simple example, if there are 20 >> data items, then I need to make 20 check boxes with the labels as retrieved >> from the server. >> >> The data on the server changes rather infrequently. >> >> While I am able to do this currently, I have a feeling it's not the best >> approach to the problem. I am making XML Http requests to the server, and >> then I parse the data and render the widgets accordingly on the fly. >> >> I am wondering if that's a good solution... I am confused because it feels >> like I have the data already, then I should be able to avoid data requests >> and the consequent delay in rendering. But with this approach, I can't think >> of a way to update the webpage appropriately if the data in the SQL server >> changes. >> >> Any opinions/suggestions? >> >> Thanks a lot, >> >> Neha > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
